Wine Bottle Holder

A friend of mine saw this in the latest issue of Wood magazine and ask me to make it for him. The wood is padauk and curly maple. Finished with two coats of gloss poly. Delivering it today. We’ll see if he likes it!

That turned out great!I’m getting ready to make a pile of these as Christmas presents using various combinations of curly maple, walnut, cherry, and oak. To speed up the shaping of the curved pieces I’m making up a set of templates to use with a flush trim bit on my router table. I’ll also be using the tenoning jig from the previous issue of Wood magazine.

Thanks Trauma.
I had the patterns zoomed like they said, but make sure that whoever zooms them gets all of it. The people that did mine didn’t get the tenons on one end of the rails. I didn’t realize this till I got home. Fortunately, though it was only a tenon and since I could set the saw up for the other end of the rail, it was not a show stopper. I used double sided tape to secure the rails and arms and band sawed them and drum sanded them together. Saved alot of time.

The maple I’m using is actually quilted maple, not curly maple, so not quite as figured. I mis-typed above. I’ve face-jointed and planed it, and while my somewhat dull jointer knives were a bit hard on it, the planer knives are good and sharp. Once I got the faces even I just flipped the board over and let the planer fix the jointer’s mess. My router pattern bit is fairly new, and is the type with a bearing at each end, so I can just flip the pieces over and use the other bearing instead of climb cutting or cutting the wrong way to the grain.About the patterns… I enlarged them on a photocopier at work, but they ended up being slightly oversized, by about 1/8” in length. When I made my templates I “fudged” it back down to the proper size rather than having to remember to adjust for it everywhere else..I plan to post mine when they’re done too.